Abstract

Article concerns very actual problem of the conceptualization of reality of teenagers’ personal property relations. The article analyzes metaphorical content of teenagers’ economic stories. It is shown that teenagers use pervious economic experience. They are do not tend to predict economic events and are don’t based on intuition, creativity and own initiative.
This article shows the teenagers’ understanding themselves as active owners, who is associated wit control and changes. Teenagers demonstrate an attempts to move beyond the perceived direct and foreseeable world of the personal economy; show an attempts to feel property in level of emotions, focusing on its cultivation and accessories.
They demonstrate the willingness to defend their interests and benefits, to win the competition. Teenagers are characterized by understanding of the personal property as a mobile processes of growth, development, change, metamorphosis.
The personal property on the teenage stage are conceptualized with more or less rational point of view. Thus, teenagers’ economic processes are conceptualized as movable, changing. Increasing of teenager’s desire to be less dependent and incorporated in the family economy, therefore, increases the desire for economic independence. Methods of financial self-sufficiency are interpreted as universal by teenagers. This is typical for teenagers poor pragmatism and orientations of the norms of goodness and kindness in relation to personal property.